Magic Realism Movies

After his father death, Ana travels to Arenillas. There she finds herself alone, but everything changes when she meets a child. With him she embarks...

When Ella makes a strange discovery about the lifestyle choices of her internet date, the recently bereaved Mark, she must choose whether to stay in...

Ortensia is a mechanical ballerina, that every day is forced to dance for an audience, in a seemingly endless loop. But one day, she sees in the...

A young, down on her luck creative finds a mysterious digital camera with the power to see a few seconds into the future. Will this be a blessing or...

When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.

In this retelling of an Italian folktale, a man marries the youngest of three sisters and shares a very strange secret with her on their wedding...

As the day races toward her grandmother's birthday, a determined granddaughter must complete the missing requirements for financial assistance while...

A trans girl misses her train stop one night and embarks on a surreal journey back home as her dreams start leaking into her reality.

A reflection on love and identity with detours towards magical realism, which winks at the oral tradition of coastal populations and introduces us to...

A 12-year-old girl lives life on the run alongside her father who has Tourette Syndrome. Desperately seeking a normal family life, she befriends a...

A widowed veterinarian and his son who claims to speak to animals are captured by the Chinese mafia in 1920s Mexicali and forced into the...

An unemployed misfit falls in love with Freddie, her goldfish and as her search for work flounders her love for Freddie deepens and she feels her...

Yuri leaves Ryo with mysterious words. Ryo goes to Hokkaido knowing that his doppelganger magician is missing. Ryo realizes Yuri was also the...

An 8-year old farm-girl teaches herself to fly, but when her favourite heifer gives birth to a male calf she ends up learning a harder lesson.

A magic realist fable about invisible elves, financial collapse and the surprising power of belief, told through the story of an Icelandic woman - a...

A stranger arrives in Sarajevo and barges into Damir's reclusive world. Little by little she takes over his life. She absorbs his dreams, until...

The film takes place at a time when global catastrophes (climate change, global pandemics, warfare, etc.) have become commonplace and normalized. Art...

In 1995, during the Angolan civil war, Nayola sets out in search of her missing husband.

Leopold Kohák married a rich widow a long time ago and now has nothing to do compared to his energetic wife. He's growing old and troubled by...

Somewhere in the Balkans, Anna explores her power of intuition while road-tripping with her old friend Armando, an amateur video-blogger who tries...